On 7/2/05, Robert G. Seeberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/01/movies/01spie.html?oref=login <snip> > In the statement, Mr. Spielberg called the Munich attack - which was > carried out by Black September, an arm of the P.L.O.'s Fatah > organization - and the Israeli response "a defining moment in the > modern history of the Middle East." > > Mr. Spielberg's interest in the question of a civilized nation's > proper response to terrorism deepened, aides said, after the 9/11 > attacks, as Americans were grappling for the first time with similar > issues - for instance, in each new lethal strike on a suspected > terrorist leader by a C.I.A. Predator drone aircraft. In Mr. Kushner's > script, people who have read it say, the Israeli assassins find > themselves struggling to understand how their targets were chosen, > whether they belonged on the hit list and, eventually, what, if > anything, their killing would accomplish. > > "What comes through here is the human dimension," said Mr. Ross, > formerly the Middle East envoy for Mr. Clinton, who has advised the > filmmakers on the screenplay and helped Mr. Spielberg reach out to > officials in the region. "You're contending with an enormously > difficult set of challenges when you have to respond to a horrific act > of terror. Not to respond sends a signal that actions are rewarded and > the perpetrators can get away with it. But you have to take into > account that your response may not achieve what you wish to achieve, > and that it may have consequences for people in the mission." > I would be interested in seeing this. Tonight at dinner I was talking to two people who both said they could not watch *Schindler's List*. One said it was too much a documentary of a horror she didn't want to see. The other said much the same thing in a more personal way - his grandparents met when his grandfather escaped a Franco concentration camp. the remaining inmates were transported away the next day and never seen again.
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